The novel, “Sparrow and Vine” by Sophie Lark, was due out in April from Bloom Books. Readers with advance copies criticized ...

Creators are breathing new life into a genre that once dominated the newsstands, turning old stereotypes on their head.

Romance may be the future to uniting women from all walks of life for good causes, as was exhibited this Galentine’s Day at the Brooklyn-based, women-owned bookshop The Ripped Bodice during an event ...

Modern romance fiction has been around since the Harlequin paperbacks of the 1970s and the Fabio bodice rippers of the ’80s and ’90s, but, lately, there’s been a renewed surge in interest in ...

The Nigerian American author’s first novel in 12 years depicts troubled relations between men and women—but no tidy ...

It doesn’t matter if you’re spending Valentine’s Day alone or with a significant other, the best gift is a romance novel. The idea of romance looks different for every reader these days.

In 1997, for example, Vivian Gornick wrote that love was no longer the primary narrative conflict of contemporary literature. Her provocative argument—that cynicism, sadness, and cultural fatigue have ...

Jaclyn Nee, a single 28-year-old speech therapist, was browsing with a friend in “contemporary romance.” It’s a sub-genre where, increasingly, women find love later in life (which ...

In true romance fiction form, there is a series of silly little misunderstandings before they become a couple ...

The romance bookstore is well and truly alive in Australia. Books Ever After opened in Bowral in 2018, Fiction and Friction in South Australia’s Murray Bridge in 2020, A Thousand Lives in ...